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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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France , where the postage upon newspapers is not a penny , but on the average less than a halfpenny , is sufficient to convince every impartial person that there can be no real difficulty in making similar arrangements in this country .
The truth is , it is not a Post-Office question . The Chancellor of the Exchequer confesses that the penny would be more than sufficient to defray all expenses . Why then does he wish to retain it ? Is it for the sake of the few thousand pounds that the revenue would gain by the tax ; quite the contrary .
It is to keep penny and two-penny newspapers out of the hands of the working classes . With a penny stamp , no journal as large as the Fenny Magazine could be published under twopence-halfpenny or threepence . The reason is that the profit on each number must be larger , 'because with the same expenses , the circulation would be less , and because there would be a
greater outlay of capital , than if there were no stamp . Under the operation of a penny stamp duty , no daily morning journal will be published under fourpence or fourpence-halfpenny . A price quite as effective as that of sevenpence in keeping them entirely out of the reach of working men . This is the object desired to be effected . The Whigs are afraid of the people ; be it so . The
people will not return the compliment—they are not afraid of the Whigs . The party of the doctrinaire , and the juste milieu will have a shorter lease of power in England , than in France . Meanwhile let the people watch the conduct of those who profess to represent their interest in the House of Commons .
A division will be taken on Mr . Wakley ' s amendment for the total abolition of the stamp duty . The result is certain ; for the Tories will of course vote with Ministers , but the result will also cause to be circulated throughout the country , the names of the friends and enemies of a free press , and the time will soon come when the information may be turned to a good account . Theta .
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264 31 ; al Interests of the Productive Classes .
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We have to apologize to contributors , us al > o to our readers , for the postponement of various original Articles , and Notices of Books . It will be perceived , by the extra quantity of matter in the proent number , thut the delay is unaxoidable . R . Q . cannot be accepted . Foh-hi has wit , but no logic . The subject requires both .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/72/
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